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Summary: "Who HQ rolls out the red carpet for Where Is Hollywood?--the film capital of the world. Developed in the 1880s by Midwesterners looking for a sunny winter getaway, Hollywood was a small housing development outside still-small Los Angeles. But everythingchanged in the early 1900s when filmmakers from New York flocked to the area, where they could make movies without having to pay Thomas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 384.8 ANABowen, Rhys.
Summary: "Lady Georgiana Rannoch, thirty-fifth in line for the British throne, knows how to play the part of an almost royal--but now she's off to Hollywood, where she must reprise her role as sleuth or risk starring in an all-too-convincing death scene ... My mother, the glamorous and much-married actress, is hearing wedding bells once again--which is why she must hop across the pond for a quickie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY BOWMitchell, Saundra.
Summary: In 1917, Kate Witherspoon, who has lived a bohemian life with her artist parents, goes to Los Angeles where she meets crippled midwestern farm boy Julian Birch, another runaway, and together they realize they have the ability to triumph over death and time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MITBailey, Mark
Summary: From the frontier days of silent film up to the wild auteur period of the 1970s, Mark Bailey has pillaged the vaults of Hollywood history and lore to dig up the true--and often surprising--stories of seventy of our most beloved actors, directors, and screenwriters at their most soused
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979 BAISarlot, Raymond R.
Summary: Presents a history of the well-known Los Angeles hotel, along with stories and anecdotes of the famous actors and celebrities who have stayed there from its opening in 1929 up to the present day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 647.95794 SARRifkind, Donna
Summary: "The little-known story of screenwriter Salka Viertel, whose salons in 1930s and 40s Hollywood created a refuge for a multitude of famous figures who had escaped the horrors of World War ll. Hollywood was created by its "others"; that is, by women, Jews, and immigrants. Salka Viertel was all three and so much more. She was the screenwriter for five of Greta Garbo's movies and also her most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VIERTEL, SALKA RIFStein, Jean.
Summary: "An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles by the author of the contemporary classic Edie; Jean Stein influenced the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie : American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol 'superstar' Edie Sedgwick. Now, in West of Eden, Stein turns her lens toward the city Sedgwick came from--Los Angeles--and a mythic cast of fortune...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979 STEVan Landingham, Andrea
Summary: "Features known and lesser-known stories from Hollywood such as the Black Dahlia murder, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's trial for the murder of Virginia Rappe, Johnny Stompanato's murder, and more"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 384 VANSherman, Casey
Summary: "Hollywood starlet Lana Turner was one Tinseltown's most recognizable faces in the 1940s and 50s. But, when the Academy Award-winning actress began dating mobster Johnny Stompanato-a thug for west coast mob boss Mickey Cohen-all the lights and glamor of Hollywood did not brighten the darkness of her personal life. Johnny's intense jealousy over Lana ruled their relationship from the get-go and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1993
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 791.43 SPELongworth, Karina
Summary: In recent months, the media has reported on scores of entertainment figures who used their power and money in Hollywood to sexually harass and coerce some of the most talented women in cinema and television. But as Karina Longworth reminds us, long before the Harvey Weinsteins there was Howard Hughes—the Texas millionaire, pilot, and filmmaker whose reputation as a cinematic provocateur was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 LONBolton, Guy
Summary: Jonathan Craine has left his old life in Hollywood behind him, content to live out his days on a farm in rural California with his teenage son. But when infamous mobster and Las Vegas founder Bugsy Siegel is killed at his home in Beverly Hills, Craine is forced to face his past once again. Summoned to Las Vegas to meet mob head Meyer Lansky, Craine is given the impossible task of finding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bolton 2018Benjamin, Melanie
Summary: A fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends, screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BENBenjamin, Melanie
Summary: A fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife. It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENMacNeal, Susan Elia
Summary: "Los Angeles, 1943. As the Allies beat back the Nazis in the Mediterranean and the United States military slowly closes in on Tokyo, Walt Disney cranks out wartime propaganda and the Cocoanut Grove is alive with jazz and swing every night. But behind this sunny façade lies a darker reality. Up in the lush foothills of Hollywood, a woman floats lifeless in the pool of one of California's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MACBasinger, Jeanine
Summary: "The real story of Hollywood--as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock, Harold Lloyd, Jordan Peele, and nearly four hundred others--reveals a fresh history of the American movie industry from its beginnings to today"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.4309 BASEstleman, Loren D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTAlcott, Kate
Summary: "The coming-of-age story of a young woman in 1950's Hollywood who grew up idolizing Ingrid Bergman and is forced to reassess her beliefs and desires in the face of Ingrid's scandalous affair with Roberto Rossellini and her fall from grace"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Alcott 2017Benjamin, Melanie
Summary: A fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: "In prohibition-era Southern California, real life detectives Charles D. Siringo and Dashiell Hammett must solve a mystery involving a ruthless politician--Joseph P. Kennedy. With sharp dialogue and rich historical background, Ragtime Cowboys is an exciting, suspenseful tale in which the Old West and Hollywood collide. Los Angeles, 1921: Ex-Pinkerton Charlie Siringo is living in quiet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: Western Estleman 2014Benjamin, Melanie
Summary: "A novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BENSummary: A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, Babylon traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD BABCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BABCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BABO'Nan, Stewart
Summary: "A "rich, sometimes heartbreaking" (Dennis Lehane) novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald's last years in Hollywood In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long over. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruins, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood. By December 1940, he would be dead of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONASummary: His picture is on magazine covers, his name in lights. Ex-con artist and gangster Dan Quigley is "doing all right in this movie racket," a big man in Hollywood. But if his criminal past resurfaces, he could end up in the big house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2008